Painting - Drawing American Flag Made Out of Jeans Watercolor Pencils by Winans

Description: Artist Tom Winans had a great idea -- to simulate the American Flag as though someone had made it out of jeans material. This is a high-quality giclée print, and will arrive in an 11 X 14 mat with backing board and a clear protective plastic sleeve. Ships flat and well protected. “Made in America” by Tom Winans The Story Behind an American Flag Made Out of Jeans! I’ve been a painter for about 37 years now, and of course I studied Art History along the way. So I know about Jasper Johns’ famous American flag paintings. Several other artists have also made paintings based on the American flag. You can find every type of painting style imaginable. Some are not pretty. The poor old flag.Nevertheless, I have always wanted to try my hand at this genre. Some genres have strict guide-lines, but flag paintings seem to have no guard rails at all. So many different versions of Johns’ flag image have been done that I could never figure out how I could do something new and original. One day I got an idea. What if I pretended that someone made a flag out of old pieces of jeans material? After all, what could be more American than Levis jeans? My make-believe seamstress could have used bleach to make the legs of old pairs of jeans into the white stripes. All of the blue dye could not be bleached out of course, so I would have to simulate that feature.Then some of the now-white denim could have been dyed the brilliant red of our flag’s red stripes. Finally, the jeans flag maker could use white embroidery floss to make raised stars on a blue denim background.To simulate the threads and stitches in the jeans, I decided to use my watercolor pencils instead of my customary paint brushes. Unlike paint brushes, pencils can be sharpened to a fine point and used to make very fine lines. But what a daunting task to make a large picture of this jeans flag using watercolor pencils! That’s a lot of white paper to cover with colored pencils. If you think the scariest thing in the world for a writer is a blank piece of 8 1/2 X 11 typing paper, try facing a blank “full sheet” piece of watercolor paper that’s 22 X 30 inches!I decided to attempt to paint a picture of only a portion of my imaginary seamstress’ marvelously original jeans flag, which painting I have called “Made in America.” This is a fine quality giclée print on archival paper with non-fading colors. To view other paintings by this locally well-known artist,simply SEARCH by his name: Tom Winans About the Artist - Tom Winans Tom Winans is a Southern California artist and has 37years of experience painting watercolor, oil and pastelchalk landscapes and seascapes, and 26 years ofteaching art students of all ages. Tom was selected for "Artist of the Week" by the YosemiteNational Park "Summer Painting Program." This programinvites the nation's top watercolorists to conduct outdoorswatercolor painting classes at sites around the YosemiteNational Park. It is quite an honor to be selected. Tom studied painting at college and at Watercolor Workshops taught bythe renowned "California Watercolor Style" artist andteacher, Robert E. Wood, who is also the author of animportant book called Watercolor Workshop. Besides Yosemite National Park, Tom also taughtwatercolor painting at Ventura College, California, as partof the college Adult Community Enrichment Program, andhe recently retired from teaching painting at Conejo ValleyAdult Education, Thousand Oaks, California. He hastaught painting at several other schools and venues aswell, and hosted his own workshops. Tom’s watercolors have been exhibited by 17 art galleriesin California. His art debut and first "one-man show" in1987 was a big success with sales of 14 watercolors in tendays. Over the past 37 years, hundreds and hundreds of Tom'swatercolor painting originals have been purchased by thepublic with some private collections having from 6 to over30 of his original paintings. Thousands of prints of his works have been purchased by the public as well.

Price: 37.95 USD

Location: Camarillo, California

End Time: 2024-12-02T18:59:58.000Z

Shipping Cost: 16.23 USD